Word: patricia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until they all go home again to New Orleans...
...Hall, Chairman, Miss Barbara Hall; A. E. Currier, Miss Elizabeth Farnham; E. A. Harper, Miss Patricia Tate; J. H. Faull, Miss Anna Faull; R. O. Wooten, Miss Helen Lucas...
...perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...
...Patricia Longworth is her name, She is by far the actress best, But to our Turkish chorus dame She's worse, far worse, than all the rest. For she had been the Mother's choice To share with Son the family treasure; She did not thus precisely repoice To lose this heir to future pleasure...
...editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...